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News from Minnesota Public Radio News: Listen NEA president on state of No Child Left Behind 13min 57sec Lily Eskelsen Garcia: President, NEA The nation’s main education law, which for more than a decade has been known as N……………. continues on Minnesota Public Radio News >>> Read the full article . Related News: . News [...]

News from U.S. News & World Report: Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. listens to testimony in January during a Senate education committee hearing on No Child Left Behind. The committee on Thursday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to update the education law. Clearing its first big hurdle, a bipartisan bill to overhaul the long-outdated No Child [...]

News from kfor.com: UPDATED: Janet Barresi, State Superintendent of schools, announced that the state of Oklahoma will not be losing any federal dollars. Instead, the state will have adjust the way the funds are spent. Barresi confirmed that the total amount coming to Oklahoma from USDE is $ 372,841,126. Barresi has ordered districts to start [...]

News from Salt Lake Tribune: State education leaders are considering abandoning Utah’s waiver to the No Child Left Behind law, partly as a statement about federal interference in Utah schools. The state school board spent more than an hour Friday debating whether to ask the federal government for an extension of the waiver for 2015. [...]

News from WTHR: INDIANAPOLIS – The State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction are once again at odds with one another. This time, the bottom line could cost Indiana school districts hundreds of millions of dollars. The U.S. Department of Education has already put Indiana on notice. The state needs to [...]

News from Kansas.com: Kansas education officials say they plan to ask for an extension of their waiver from the No Child Left Behind law, saying they are no closer to installing a new teacher evaluation system than they were last summer. Kansas was put on notice in August that it is at “high risk” of [...]

No Child Left Behind Anniversary: Collateral Damage is Making Education …News from PolicyMic: No Child Left Behind Anniversary Collateral Damage is Making Education System Worse January 8, 2013 is the 11th anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act(NCLB). Its central idea is to demand accountability for all government-funded schools and to use standardized testing [...]

No Child Left Behind Reauthorization Debate Likely To Continue In Obama …News from Huffington Post: In 2008, Barack Obama campaigned on the promise that his administration would oversee the rewriting of the expired No Child Left Behind Act. But four years later, education experts and legislators don’t see any end to the negotiations with and [...]

Texas will ask for reprieve from federal No Child Left Behind education lawNews from Austin American-Statesman: By Kate Alexander and Laura Heinauer Texas will ask federal education officials for a reprieve from the increasingly onerous provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act. The unexpected move Thursday by Michael Williams, Texas’ newly ensconced education commissioner, [...]